SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: VOCATION

  • It doesn’t matter what our citizenship is, it doesn’t matter what our status is here or there, it doesn’t matter if we’re married not married, if we have kids or don’t have kids, if we have a job or don’t have a job—none of that matters because we are children of God. And as a father takes care of his child, so God will take care of us. And if we find ourselves in points in our lives where we feel like God has abandoned us, it is not He who has abandoned us—it’s we who have abandoned Him.

    —Fr. Daniel Habib

  • Our various trials and weaknesses and disadvantages are perfectly in proportion to our callings and our given abilities—those gifts, that grace has put into each of us to handle our life circumstances so we can succeed in fulfilling God’s purpose for us.

    God’s Path to Sanity
    Dee Pennock

  • Galatians 6:4

    But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

    Let go of comparison. Spiritual comparison is the enemy of joy and fruitfulness. We look at other spiritual lives and feel I’m less or I’m better. St John Climacus says this: “Do not compare yourself with the strong lest you become discouraged, nor with the weak lest you become proud.”

    What’s the worst word that we say as Egyptians comparison? Ishmahna.

    I don’t know how many times you would say ishmahna, like, how come this person gets to do this? And I’m comparing. Because God wants them to do this and God wants you to do another thing.

    You feel that you’re being measured and that’s why ishmahna this person gets this. Be careful of this. Your value is not based on what you’ve been chosen to do. Everybody has their calling.

    —Fr. Paul Girguis

  • When a person can’t find meaning they distract themselves with pleasure

    —Viktor Frankl

  • “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

    —Mother Teresa

  • It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.   Mark 10:25

    Studies say, the higher you go, the higher your net worth, the more money you have, the less percentage you end up giving. The more people have, the less people give on average percentage wise. Why is that? Because when you have little, you know that the little is not going to take care of you. When you only have a few things, you say, “this cannot possibly provide for me – my trust is in someone bigger.”

    —Fr. Antony Paul, THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES

  • We come to realize that what previously seemed so important for our lives, loses its power over us. Our desire to be successful, well liked, and influential becomes increasingly less important as we come closer to God’s heart. To our surprise, we even may experience a strange inner freedom to follow a new call or direction as previous concerns move into the background of our consciousness.

    —Henri Nouwen, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life

  • “Pray as if everything depends on God. Work as if everything depends on you.”

    —St. Ignatius

  • “The question of where to live and what to do is really insignificant compared to the question of how to keep the eyes of my heart focused on the Lord.”

    —Henri Nouwen

  • “In an ordinary journey, the further the traveler proceeds, the more tired he becomes; but on the way of spiritual life the longer a man travels, reaching forth unto those things which are before, the greater the strength and power he acquires for his further progress.”

    —Saint Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain